I use the feature on Slashdot to exclude the politics category so I do not want to see political posts on Slashdot. Frankly Slashdot is so bad at anything involving poltics that is down at the FOX News and MSNBC level of trash.

" and presumably the hospital staff have some bigoted beliefs, and without that 'bit of paper' they can enforce them),"
It is usually the family of person in the hospital that demands this and not the staff. I have visited many people in the hospital including a few that where terminal. No hospital has a family only visiting rule.
Do not blame or call the hospital bigoted for following the law. It is the family of the patient that has the power to exclude people.

So there's no reason to not get married since legally you already are married since you are in a common law marriage.
So why not publicly and willing enter into the commitment that is being forced on you by the rule of law.

True. I never said that it was not a huge mistake to stop the Saturn V production line, not developing a new Saturn 1 class rocket with maybe a single F1 for the first stage, and or stopping the production and development of the Apollo CSM.

The coping part is pretty well documented.

Put this in Politics where it belongs.

So why don't you get married and add the legally binding commitment as well as all the legal protections that marriage offers?
If it is just a piece of paper "that happens to offer legal bindings and benefits" they why not just get married?

I am not throwing in with them I am simply saying that they are just using it as a tool.
As you said it is also the composition fallacy. Which is reality just a form of bigotry. I am also tired of the magnification of the problem. There are millions of people that are "gamers" just as their are millions of people that post on forums. A tiny fraction of a percentage of those people are causing all the problems. The internet acts as a crazy magnifying glass to what is really a very small problem.

"Think about it this way: the USA created the space shuttle and sank billions of dollars into it. The Russians kept improving the Soyuz rockets and capsules."
Hummm
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)"
They spent billions trying to copy the space shuttle.

And everyone they came in contact with. At everyone that came in contact with the carrier in the airports where he changed planes and....

1. You are using before taxes.
2. A car payment that is one 1/3 of your yearly income is stupid.